This study examined how talker accentedness affects the recognition of noise-vocoded speech by native English listeners and contextual information interplays with during this process. The included 20 English-speaking, normal-hearing adults aged between 19 23 years old. stimuli were Hearing in Noise Test (HINT) Revised Speech Perception (R-SPIN) sentences produced four Mandarin talkers (two male...

Recent studies have shown that high levels of speech understanding could be achieved when the speech spectrum was divided into four channels and then reconstructed as a sum of four noise bands or sine waves with frequencies equal to the center frequencies of the channels. In these studies speech understanding was assessed using sentences produced by a single male talker. The aim of experiment 1...

Objectives: Language development is often very slower in hearing impaired children compared with their normal peers. Hearing impairment during childhood affects all aspects of speech production and language acquisition. It seems that hearing impaired people suffer from language and speech impairments such as production of complex linguistic structures. The purpose of this study is to determine ...

This paper presents a practical method for a global structure analyzing Mgorithm of Japanese long sentences with lexical information, a method which we call Lexical Discourse Grammar (LDG). This method assumes that .Japanese function words, such as conjunctive particles (postpositions) located at the end of each clause, have modality and suggest global structures of Japanese long sentences in c...

We describe three analyses on the effects of spontaneous speech on continuous speech recognition performance. We have found that: (1) spontaneous speech effects significantly degrade recognition performance, (2) fluent spontaneous speech yields word accuracies equivalent to read speech, and (3) using spontaneous speech training data can significantly improve performance for recognizing spontane...

In a consistent text, many words and phrases are repeatedly used in more than one sentence. When an identical phrase (a set of consecutive words) is repeated in different sentences, the constituent words of those sentences tend to be associated in identical modification patterns with identical parts of speech and identical modifiee-modifier relationships. Thus, when a syntactic parser cannot pa...

The current study investigated the perception of foreign-accented speech by prelingually deaf, longterm cochlear implant (CI) users. CI and normalhearing (NH) listeners made judgements about the intelligibility of short sentences produced by native and non-native speakers of American English. While both CI and NH listeners rated foreign-accented sentences as less intelligible than native senten...